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Henry a Yost and Cynthia Yost Family Foundation at a glance

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Henry a Yost and Cynthia Yost Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$153k
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$831kHousing & Shelter$93kEducation$79kHuman Services$68kPhilanthropy$61kReligion$37kPublic Benefit$29kArts & Culture$26kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k42 grants · $74k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $84k
$2,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNTINGTON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$23,000
FREEDOM HOUSE INC$15,000
UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES$15,000
SANCTUARY CENTER$11,000
SOUTHLANDS CHINO$10,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF LA$10,000
KARE YOUTH LEAGUE$5,000
CITY OF HOPE$4,000
UNIVERSITY OF DENVER$3,000
HUNTINGTON LIBRARY$3,000
PASADENA SPECIAL HOCKEY INC$3,000
MAYFIELD JUNIOR SCHOOL$3,000
PAUL SMITH'S COLLEGE$3,000
DOOR OF HOPE$3,000
PEACE SISTERS$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ANGEL CITY SPORTS: $1k → 14%WESPARK: $3k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $20k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $15k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $15k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $12k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $5k → 14%UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $5k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $2k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $2k → 14%Union Station Homeless Services: $1k → 14%HATHAWAY SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $3k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $3k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 14%PASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 14%Pasadena Senior Center: $500 → 14%Pasadena Senior Center: $500 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
NY
WY
IA
CA
CO
MO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 57 repeat orgs$66k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships: 39 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
38

Total granted

$1.2M
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+47%

Still filing today

46%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureInternationalEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PH
    Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd
    8× · 2017–2024 · $586k · revenue +25%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Los Angeles
    7× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +78%
  • US
    UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +379%

Funded once

  • OA
    OPERATION ARTHROSCOPY
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -30%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +23%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
2
Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
3
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
5
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
6
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
7
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
8
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
9
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
10
Usc Arcadia Hospital

To provide high-quality healing services while caring for the patient's emotional and spiritual needs and enabling them to achieve health for life.

Health
11
Barlow Respiratory Hospital

A not-for-profit, long-term acute care specialty healthcare organization is to improve the quality of life for patients with respiratory and other diseases that may require prolonged acute hospitalization of specialized treatment.

Health
12
Children's Hospital Los Angeles Medical Group

To be the preeminent pediatric, multispecialty medical group in the nation, dedicated to providing the highest quality medical care to infants, children and adolescents; and supporting the finest teaching and research endeavors of our…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Villa Esperanza Services; the most unlike its peers is Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 48 of the 104 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
39/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $585,800 · HealthPasadena Hospital Association LtdChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $90,250 · HealthChildren's Hospital Los AngelesPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital: $45,000 · HealthPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital+10 more: $29,750 · HealthCITY OF HOPE: $36,959 · OtherCITY OF HOPESANCTUARY CENTER: $35,500 · OtherSANCTUARY CENTERFREEDOM HOUSE INC: $28,600 · OtherFREEDOM HOUSE INCSOUTHLANDS CHINO: $18,000 · OtherSOUTHLANDS CHINOIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,000 · OtherMAYO CLINIC: $12,500 · OtherHILLSIDE HOME FOR CHILDREN: $12,000 · Other+61 more: $160,443 · Other+61 moreUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $76,500 · Human ServicesPASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $10,500 · Human ServicesKARE YOUTH LEAGUE: $5,000 · Human Services+4 more: $8,500 · Human ServicesPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationSWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION: $13,000 · EducationVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $11,000 · EducationPEACE SISTERS INC: $10,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $9,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $16,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePasadena Community Foundation: $15,000 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $2,500 · PhilanthropyOPERATION ARTHROSCOPY: $5,000 · InternationalFREEDOM HOUSE: $4,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 · International
Health$750,800Other$335,002Human Services$100,500Education$64,500Arts & Culture$19,500Philanthropy$17,500International$9,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPasadena Hospital Association Ltd: $585,800 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Los Angeles: $90,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES: $76,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL SMITHS COLLEGE: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Community Foundation: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA SENIOR CENTER: $10,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetPEACE SISTERS INC: $10,500 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetDOOR OF HOPE: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAS MADRINAS: $6,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCASA TREATMENT CENTER: $5,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKARE YOUTH LEAGUE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA HUMANE: $4,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFREEDOM HOUSE: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWESTRIDGE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS INC: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIWAY 80 RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPKD Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArlington Garden in Pasadena: $2,750 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHATHAWAY-SYCAMORES CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE ROLLS ON FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWESPARK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF LOS ANGELES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PUBLIC RADIO: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOODEN CENTER: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROSE BOWL AQUATICS CENTER: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASA DEL HERRERO: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LAND TRUST FOR SANTA BARBARA COUNTY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngel City Alliance: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIDI HIRSCH PSYCHIATRIC SERVICE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPasadena Conservatory of Music: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PASADENA PLAYHOUSE STATE THEATRE OF CALIFORNIA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA GARDEN CLUB INC: $425 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
  • Who funds UNION STATION HOMELESS SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds PIH Health Good Samaritan Hospital ↗
  • Who funds PAUL SMITHS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds HENRY E HUNTINGTON LIBRARY AND ART GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds Pasadena Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SWIM WITH MIKE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds VILLA ESPERANZA SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PEACE SISTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DOOR OF HOPE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
  • Who funds LAS MADRINAS ↗
  • Who funds CASA TREATMENT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES ↗
  • Who funds KARE YOUTH LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION ARTHROSCOPY ↗
  • Who funds PASADENA HUMANE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Pasadena Community Fo…California Community …The Ahmanson Foundati…Ann Peppers FoundationThe Rose Hills Founda…Wm Keck FoundationThe Ayrshire Foundati…The James J and Sue F…John Jewett & Helen C…Western Asset Managem…The Fitzberg Foundati…David and Elita Balfo…
Pasadena Community FoundationCA35.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pasadena Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation · The Ayrshire Foundation · The James J and Sue Femino Foundation · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · Western Asset Management Company Charitable Foundation · The Fitzberg Foundation · David and Elita Balfour Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Henry a Yost and Cynthia Yost Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Henry a Yost and Cynthia Yost Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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